Bruderhof wrote:
> It is an extraordinary thing and characteristic of the Lord Jesus that
> he gives us to understand that what he is doing on earth is only a
> beginning. Nothing is finished yet. Nothing is so complete, nothing so
> perfect, that it is to remain unchanged from what it was in his time.
> What he has given us is a root and not yet a tree. The seed still must
> grow, the branches spread out; the blossoms will come later. In the
> end the fruit will come...
>
No other man ever thought, or even thinks today, that his work goes on
after him in such a way that he himself is the one who continues to do it.
Only Jesus has been raised above death and thus made a beginning in
overcoming the death of mankind, in that he says, "As I have been, so I
remain; and I am coming."
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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